Becoming a Professional Poker Player

There is a phenomenon that occurs frequently among amateur poker players. A recreational player starts running well and winning consistently and comes to the conclusion that playing poker for a living makes a lot of sense. Hey, what’s not to like? It’s fun, it’s profitable, you can make your own hours, you are your own boss, quit when you want, play as long as you like, sleep till noon and the list goes on. Our winning recreational poker player’s only query at this point in his analysis is, “Why didn’t I think of this sooner”?

Assuming you’re not already a full time pro, have you ever thought of poker as a career path? I mean, really – how difficult can it be? You see these youngsters on TV that deposit $20 in an online poker account, begin winning, never look back and are now millionaires! While there certainly have been a couple of mind boggling success stories, when poker becomes your sole source of income the following cliché becomes very true; poker is a tough way to make an easy living. poker lenses

I’m not saying becoming a poker pro can’t be done or is a foolhardy endeavor – after all many have made a successful crossover to professional poker and prospered. I am saying it takes some thought, introspection and honest evaluation of your talents, motives and determination to assess whether you are resilient enough to succeed in this unusual life style. Let’s examine some of the criteria that one should be focused to before making the plunge. infrared contact lenses

Are You a Winning Poker Player?

The real question is are you a winning player at stakes high enough to support the life style you demand? Two key criteria need to be addressed. First, you must know you are a winning player not just believe it because of anecdotal evidence. You must keep meticulous and honest records of your sessions to prove to yourself that over time you are a winning player. Keeping honest records is a must. I know some players tend to fudge the records slightly to make their statistics look better. This is nonsense of the highest order as lying to yourself can only be self defeating. I also think that you need a minimum of a thousand hours and, more realistically, two thousand to have a database of any relevance. So, if you’ve just won your last four sessions in a row for a total of fifteen hours and think you’re ready to turn pro – think again!

The second part of the proof is the stakes that you have been beating on a regular basis. Remember, if you’re playing low stakes and beating them like a drum those winnings will probably not be able to support you. You need to determine how much money you will need to earn in order to support yourself and, if not single, your family. If you have been keeping solid records, then you know your hourly earn rate over a thousand or more hours. You can then compute that against how many hours per week you plan to play and determine if the thought to turn pro is just a fantasy or could actually work. Here is a sobering fact – if you determine that you will need to play higher stakes to earn enough money to live on then the competition just became stronger and you will need to prove that you can still win against stronger opposition. Notice how the fanciful thought of being your own boss and earning a living while having fun at the poker table has begun to sound like a real job?

how to read juice work

In the next few lines you will be able to get a good understanding of how juice works. It should be noted, however, that viewing juice marks requires a great deal of training; some juice decks are made so well that even experts can not see the marks, not even when they are told the marks are in fact there.infrared marked cards

The illustration above represents an old gambler's marking code that has supposedly often been used on juice decks. Note that this deck is probably marked for Blackjack. All the picture cards are marked as tens and the suits are irrelevant. There is no rule to how the cards have to me marked. As with any other marking method many cheats prefer to have their own personal codes. As you can see the marks are large and easy to see, even from a distance ... if ... you know what to look for. How could you miss them? This is precisely the beauty of juice work. You have to train your eyes to be able to see the marks.

Juice patterns are not limited only to the dime-size dots and thick lines shown above. Below are two examples of other coding patterns.

The pattern on the top is called line juice. In this particular example, the positions of the lines are based on the old classic cheater's code previously described. The lines themselves are quite thin and are capable of blending into a Bee design far better than the large dots of the classic system.

The bottom row shows what I've named edge juice. To the best of my knowledge this code is my own invention that I've developed in the attempt to better hide the patterns. This juice is a lot more difficult to see than the classic code. Even if someone well-informed happens to be looking for juice, they may miss this because the edge work may appear more like shadows (which would not be the case if a savvy person manages to discover the classic code). In any event, if the cards are juiced correctly, nothing should be seen by anyone who doesn't know the proper viewing technique.

I had once had a client who wanted to have several juice deck made to order. He wanted to have all the cards marked for value, as well as for suit. At first I had told him it would be unwise to put additional lines (to represent suits) on the cards, because as a rule of thumb one should minimize the amount of marks - even if is very unlikely anyone would discover the work. However, his persistence led me to develop a system that would not require any additional lines for suits, but would still be able to distinguish the cards from being black-suited or red-suited, which is an added advantage in some games, such as poker.

The code shown above is called "Juice Code L-26" (my own terminology). The "L" stands for "Line" and the "26" means that the code consists of 26 symbols. This code reveals more information without adding any extra lines (with the exception of the red-suited 2s and 3s). As can be seen from the illustration, the red-suited cards can be distinguished from the black ones simply by the positions of the lines. It should be noted, however, that the code shown above is an old one. I have later developed a slightly different 13-way combination code, with a different 26-way combination code to match.luminosu contact lenses

Now that we've covered some marking codes, let's talk about the actual work.

To an untrained eye nothing seems to be out of order with the cards, but to a trained eye these marks are reputedly said to "stand out like neon signs". At least this is what the legend says. This statement is to be taken with a little bit of a poetic licensing, but the fact is that to the paper player these marks are visible from across the table, which is why some cheats have been known to also call juice cards distant readers.

The image at the right is a picture of an actual juice card. This is also how the card would appear to an untrained eye. I never expected juice marks to reproduce on screen and I didn't put it there to show the marks. I just wanted to be absolutely sure everybody understands what kind of cards must be used in order for juice to work. It is absolutely essential to use cards with an even, repeating pattern such as the Bee brand shown on the photo.

The fluid used to mark cards is applied to the backs so that it doesn't leave any apparent stains. However it does leave a residue. This residue effects the way light reflects from the backs of the marked card. When a cheat "turns on his X-ray vision" the areas marked with juice will jump out. A well-trained eye can read juice marks as if the cards were face-up.

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Should You Invest In An Online Poker Remote Control?

Modern technology nowawadays is making our lives better, easier and more entertaining by the second. The internet has certainly opened up the global market place and anything can be sold there and I do mean anything. I was browsing the internet a few days ago when I ended up on a couple of websites that were offering none other than a remote control for playing online poker, Wow! What will they think of next? Yes that’s the first thought that entered my mind when I saw this advertisement. My second thought was, why would you want a remote control to play online poker, how is it going to help your game get any better? More importantly is it worth the extra expense.marked cards contact lenses

Oh and did I mention that these online poker remote controls come in two flavors: there is the "regular version" and the "plus version". Wait, there’s more, the reason behind them having two versions is because the "regular version" does not work on tournaments while the "plus version" works on all poker games including Poker Tournaments. So there you have it, now you understand why it is necessary for there to be two versions of this online poker remote control.

Ok so now we get down to the real issue here, what’s a poker remote control and more importantly should you spend the extra cash to get one of these online poker remote controls? They keep talking about you being able to do other stuff while waiting between turns, like wander off and watch a sitcom on your couch but who says you cannot do other stuff without having to purchase one of these gadgets. Furthermore if you are going to be sitting on the couch operating that online poker remote control, you had better have very good eyesight to see the screen from that distance or perhaps you are one of those who are fortunate enough to own a very wide screen monitor. Not to mention if it takes your fellow poker players more than twenty-minutes to decide what their next move should be then maybe you should look into playing with some other people! Of course there are those times when your kids demand homework help or a snack in the kitchen and being able to make your bet with the poker remote would be quite useful.

So what it all boils down to is this, if you are one of those technology geeks who has to have the latest gadget on the market, and money is not a problem to you, then go ahead and have a blast with your new online poker remote control. Seeing as you are going for the best you will be purchasing the "plus version", of course. Personally I would not invest in an online poker remote control, because I am certain that I can get along fine without it, my online poker experience will be none the worse without it, and I am positive that my mouse will be quite capable of performing all my online poker moves. poker lenses

Deal Between PokerStars And Full Tilt Poker With DoJ Is Almost Done

A deal has been affected in between the US DOJ and two of the web-based poker sites to permit them to reimburse gamers' money. You will find no indicator in respect to why Absolute Poker has yet still to figure out its own deal, but the Department of Justice claim claims the "Government stands to enter the same agreement with Absolute Poker if [AP] so chooses." infrared marked cards

Noticeably, the Department of justice gives the look to have recognized that it was dropping the press warfare by denying US gamblers accessibility to their own money, gripping it to undertake something. The Department of Justice declaration took pains to point out these basic: "No individual player accounts were ever frozen or restrained, and each implicated poker company has at all times been free to reimburse any player's deposited funds. In fact, this Office expects the companies to return the money that U.S. players entrusted to them, and we will work with the poker companies to facilitate the return of funds to players, as today's agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker demonstrate."

The deals entail the poker sites to sustain "all records relating to all financial transactions; all records relating to website databases; all internal email correspondence; and all business records generally." The deal is to apply until the lawsuit is resulted, a superseding covenant is attained, or until the Department of Justice and the sites "mutually agree to terminate the agreement." Clearly, some sort of deal gives the look to be in this particular works. The DoJ/poker room treaty referenced Stars' legal counsel as David M. Zornow, Anand S. Raman and John K. Carroll (former chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the Southern District of New York). That last choice should show a smart one. Nothing like getting a past co-worker of your prosecutors on your defense group.

The websites will be let the usage of their seized (dot)com domains to facilitate withdrawals barely - US internet gamers are unable to make deposits or take part in any games. The internet sites will be required to post DoJ-supplied banner information clearing up their constraints vis vis US gamers. A DOJ-approved (but paid for by the sites) 'independent monitor' is to be choosen to be sure PokerStars and Full Tilt comply with the agreement. This monitor is to issue a Compliance Report to the DoJ after 45 days on the work. The domains stay in the power of the DoJ, and the internet sites have guaranteed not to "seek to challenge or overturn the seizure of the Domain during the duration of this agreement."

Gamers outside the US are evidently able to make use of the (dot)com websites as normal, as the DoJ proceeds to state that "the agreements do not prohibit, and, in fact, expressly allow for, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to provide for, and facilitate, players outside of the United States to engage in playing online poker for real money."marked cards contact lenses

Full Tilt released a statement, calling the agreement "an important first step" but pointed out "there remain significant practical and legal impediments to returning funds to players in the immediate future there exists no authorized US payment channel through which to make refunds. Full Tilt Poker has no accounting of the millions of dollars of player funds that were seized by the government and the government has not agreed to permit any of the seized funds to be returned to the players. Finally, there are numerous legal and jurisdictional issues that must be considered before poker winnings can be paid out to players through the US The indictment and civil forfeiture action filed last Friday require Full Tilt Poker to proceed with caution in this area. Notwithstanding these issues, Full Tilt Poker is ready to work diligently with the US Attorney's Office to try and resolve these issues and to get players their money back as soon as possible."

What Full Tilt appears to be trying to mention here is that, in reality, with US banks likely edgy about having something to do with any of the indicted companies or gambling-correlated money in most cases, the poker companies may need to consider miscode their transactions to get them through the system. Quite simply, they'll most likely have to break the legal guidelines to comply with the DoJ agreement...

PokerStars' announcement steered that "returning US players' funds is a top priority All PokerStars player deposits are completely safe. The Isle of Man's strict licensing laws (similar to other jurisdictions where PokerStars holds licenses) require all funds to be held in accounts that are segregated from company assets. PokerStars has always complied with this requirement and continues to do so. This money is readily available to meet withdrawal demands." Stars added, however that it "categorically denies the allegations brought by the US Department of Justice on 15th April 2011 and is taking all steps necessary to robustly defend itself, and the two named individuals."